Lifestyle

The words we use with ourselves and others are so important! Words create our experience in so many ways. They shape how we expect things will turn out. They influence whether or not we are able to get the best out of our children or staff. And our words contain many hidden beliefs and judgments.…

The editor has asked me use to muse on what the second half of the year means. Let’s face it, we make a lot of noise about New Year’s Resolutions and get all fired up about at the beginning of the year. Sometimes, our energy and follow through wane towards the back end of the…

As one financial year clocks off and the other clocks on, it makes sense to take stock of where our business has come to; compare where we are with respect to the goals and targets we set at the start of the year. Is what we have done so far getting us closer to realising…

I was playing tennis in a State Junior event when I was about 14 and learnt a very valuable lesson about process versus outcome focus. It is something that has always helped me reset, and something worth pondering, especially as we embark on the second half of the year where we get a second chance…

Greg Mortimer, OAM is an Australian mountaineer, most well known as one of the first two Australians (with Tim Macartney-Snape) to successfully climb Mount Everest without oxygen in 1984. Their ascent was the first via the North face and Great Couloir and is now one of the established routes used to climb the mountain. He…

So many aspects of a business can and need to be controlled. As business owners we put procedures and processes in place to help make things efficient and profitable (and easier for all concerned). Take for example a biotech firm I worked with a few years back. These ingenious people worked out a way to…

Here I am in Bath, England on holidays with my wife. This morning I got a call from our son-in-law. Our pregnant daughter has had a fall on her way to work. She has been rushed to hospital and had an emergency Caesarean section. Her baby boy was born 14 weeks premature. Everyone is in…

In health and fitness coaching we like to talk about goals. One of the biggest mistakes people make though is setting all ‘outcome’ goals. These are things like, “I am going to lose 25kg”, “I am going to run 5km nonstop”, “I am going to be free of back pain”. While these are all good…

Over the past few weeks, there have been so many deserving causes that have been in the headlines. There was the cyclone which devastated Vanuatu. Then followed the Nepalese earthquakes. There is the constant worldwide dilemma of refugees whether it be in our waters or the journey from North Africa to Europe. All of them…